The flame war needs to stop. I PM'ed a head mod about a certain member's attitude in this thread. Hopefully, the useless posts will stop and the people that are interested in this hack can learn more about it without getting annoyed by useless posts. Please, let's talk about this hack and learn how we can do it.
FindingFinding it is easy enough, just google sdg605bv2.rar.
Flashing the FirmwareFlashing your Samsung drive is also relatively easy. Turn off your computer and Xbox. Open up your computer case and connect an IDE cable to the Xbox DVD drive. Leave the yellow cables connected to the Xbox motherboard so the drive gets power. Turn on the Xbox, leave it on. The drive will have power. Turn on your computer, and wait until Windows detects the drive. I usually wait until the drive comes up in My Computer, just to make sure. Run MtkWinFlash and launch ATAPI version. Select the Xbox DVD drive and select the sdg605b.bin file. It will flash the firmware and then tell you to reboot your computer. Instead, just turn off your computer. Disconnect the Samsung Xbox Drive from your computer and hook it back up to your Xbox.
--That's what I have done so far. I'm stuck on making my own dumps.
Making Raw Dumps - My ProblemsSo...If anybody who has done this would like to tell us how to make a dump with very clear instructions, I would really appreciate it. Here is what I tried...
I put Sin City (7.85gb) in my DVD drive and opened up ISO Buster. Before doing anything, I set the read retries to 1 in IsoBuster by going to Options > File System Settings > Communication tab > Read Settings tab > set both read retries to 1 > hit Ok. I right-clicked the DVD icon in the file tree and hit Extract DVD <Image>. I then selected the only thing I could select: User Data (*.tao, *.iso). A window came up asking me where I wanted to save the file and what filename I wanted. I typed in Halo2 as my filename but DID NOT hit Save. At this point, I opened up wxRipper. With wxRipper, I hit Hotswap>Stop drive. I then hit Hotswap>Eject Drive and the tray ejected. I swapped the Sin City DVD with an original Halo 2 NTSC but left the tray open. Using wxRipper, I hit Hotswap>Load drive and the tray closed. I used wxRipper one last time to do Hotswap>Spin drive. I was done with wxRipper, so I closed out of it. Isobuster is still open, and at the browse window with the filename, waiting for me to hit Save. So i hit Save and I immediately got a bad sector error. What's weird is most people said they got it around 7% but I got it immediately, before it even started ripping. My error came up like this:
I told Isobuster to Replace With Dummy Data and checked the box that said Always Apply Selection and then clicked Selection. It started ripping and it was done within 10 minutes. This is also unnerving, as the others said it took about an hour to rip Halo 2, but mine was done in 10 minutes. Well, I now have a 7.85gb Halo2.tao file on my hard drive, as well as a 1kb Halo2.cue file. This is the most I have done so far. With so many differences between me and others, I'm pretty sure I did something wrong. I am writing all this to supply as much information as I can about what I did, so the people who have tried this can tell me where I went wrong. I think finding the firmware and flashing it is easy enough. The hard part is making an ISO. I can't even get a raw dump. I still don't know how to go about getting the SS and hexediting or injecting that, but I think I should get a proper Raw dump first. I think it's best to take this one step at a time. I have a double-layer burner, 10 blank dl's, and I already flashed the drive with the hacked firmware. I want to try this, but I will need some help making the ISO. If somebody can help me get this, I'll write a clear tutorial on how to do everything step-by-step. Just need some help making the ISO.
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